View of Native American (Oglala Sioux) men on horseback on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The men wear feather headdresses, beaded leggings, and carry beaded and quilled bags, coup sticks and rifles.

This business, in Wounded Knee, Shannon County, South Dakota, has a sign: "Gildersleeve and Son Wounded Knee Trading Post, Wounded Knee, S.D." A man sits in a chair on the roof, with a rifle across his lap; another person smokes a cigarette. Trash...

Philip Wells, a mixed blood Sioux (Native American, Dakota), an interpreter and military scout; Buffalo Bill (William F. Cody) and Major John R. Brennan, Superintendent of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, pose near tepees on the Pine Ridge...

View of the funeral of the Standing Rock Agency police who were killed during the attempted arrest of Sitting Bull, a Native American (Hunkpapa Sioux), South Dakota. The men were buried in a civilian cemetery near the agency in South Dakota.

Native American Lakota Sioux men and boys perform a dance on the Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota. They wear breechcloths, bustles, roaches, feathers in their hair, legbands with bells, moccasins, armbands, and hair pipe breastplates.

Bird's eye view over the U. S. Army, Seventh Cavalry camp, Native American Lakota Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, shows a photographer with a camera on a rise, dozens of round wall tents with the soldiers' horses between them and the...

George Bartlett, Deputy U.S. Marshall for the Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations, poses wearing heavy winter coats in front of the post office and store operated by Louis Mousseau, on the Native American Dakota Sioux, Pine Ridge Agency, South...

George Bartlett, deputy U.S. marshal for the Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations poses with a Native American Sioux policeman, women and children around a tepee and log cabin, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. Background includes tepees, figure...

View of the First Infantry of the United States Army in camp on the Native American Lakota Sioux, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, includes the soldiers with cooking pots, an axe, pile of timber firewood, a tomato can, and round walled tents...

Lieutenant Cloman poses with his horse mounted troops of Native American Oglala Sioux scouts, during a drill in a snowstorm on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. They wear uniforms with fur caps and mittens and hold rifles. Tepees, wall...

View of Porcupine Butte from the north, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, here Native American Lakota Sioux encountered a column of the Seventh Cavalry and were ordered to a camp on Wounded Knee Creek the night before the massacre.

Two white men look towards the camp of the Native American Lakota Sioux outside of the Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota. The temporary fortification (breastwork) set up by Captain Dougherty show next to them and the agency buildings are to the south.

The U. S. Army, First Infantry, forms a long line, on main street of the Pine Ridge Agency, as they prepare to depart almost two months after the fight at Wound Knee with Native American Lakota Sioux, South Dakota. A four horse team pulls a lead...

The U. S. Army, First Infantry, forms a long line, on main street of the Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, as they prepare to depart, almost two months after the fight at Wound Knee with Native American Lakota Sioux. A four horse team pulls a lead...

First Infantry of the United States Army breaks camp at the Native American Lakota Sioux Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota. The men load sacks filled with gear into wagon pulled by a team of horses; wooden crates on the snow covered ground read:...

Chief Two Strikes speaks from inside the council circle of Native American Lakota Sioux, on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, as he attempts to convince the remaining Ghost Dancers to give up their weapons.

Chief Kicking Bear speaks from inside the council circle of Native American Lakota Sioux, as he attempts to convince the remaining Ghost Dancers to give up their weapons, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.

General Cyrus Bussey, assistant secretary of the interior, holds a council with Native American Lakota Sioux, under shade trees, six months after the fight at Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota.

Native American, Lakota Sioux, (Oglala) Company B, United States Cavalry pose with their commander Lieutenant John J. Pershing and his assistant boy, Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, in front of a tepee. The men wear military uniforms and hold...

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody stands in the center of the back row of a group of Native American chiefs and several United States government officials, possibly after the Battle of Wounded Knee. Standing at the far right of the group is...

Native American Lakota Sioux chiefs Good Lance, Big Talk, Kicking Bear, and Two Strike pose on horses with J. A. McDonough, reporter, Frank Gerard, chief of scouts, and Major John Burke, general manager of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show, at the...

Young Man Afraid of His Horses, Native American Oglala Sioux, poses in his tepee camp on the Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota. He wears a polka dot shirt, leggings, hat, and a blanket around his waist; possibly his wife, wrapped in a blanket shows...

View of grave markers near the site of mass graves of the Native American Sioux victims of the Wounded Knee massacre, South Dakota, shows wooden crosses, one reads: "Rose Bear Lies Down, D. Nov. 17, 1930, RIP".

View of the mass graves of the Native American Sioux victims of the Wounded Knee massacre, South Dakota, shows a long concrete border, decorated markers, a tall wooden cross, and a memorial topped with an urn.

A Native American (Sioux) man and woman sit on a bench in the hallway of the Bureau of Indian Affairs building, possibly in Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Signs above the doors in the hallway read: "Private" "Adult Education" "Exit" and "Education".

U. S. Marshals stand on a road during the 1973 AIM occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. The men hold rifles on their shoulders with shoulder straps. They wear combat boots, jumpsuits, and baseball caps with badges. Road signs read: "Big Foot...

A Native American (Sioux) man stands in a bunker surrounded by logs during the 1973 AIM occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. The man stands near a piece of wood that extends from the bunker wall. A U. S. flag flies upside-down near the bunker....

Groups of Native American (Sioux) men and women stand and sit near Sacred Heart Catholic Church during the 1973 AIM occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Fortifications that consist of cinder blocks and logs are in front of the church. A Sioux...

Two Native American (Sioux) men stand in a corral during the 1973 AIM occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. A group of horses runs away from the men. Buildings and houses of the town are in the distance. Automobiles are parked near houses....

A group of Native American (Sioux) men stand on a road while two men with rifles sit on and near the road during the 1973 AIM occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. The men who sit wear wide-brimmed hats with beaded hatbands.

A Native American (Sioux) man aims a rifle as another stands nearby during the 1973 AIM occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. The man with the rifle looks through the scope. The rifle has a shoulder strap decorated with beads. One man wears...

U. S. Army Soldiers pose in formation in front of their wall tent camp on snow, Native American Lakota Sioux Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota. The band has trombones, clarinets, horns and tubas. The men wear winter overcoats and fur hats.

Commander General Nelson A. Miles poses with his U. S. Army officers outside in their camp on the Native American Sioux, Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota. They include left to right: Captain Ezra P. Ewers, Lieutenant John S. Mallory, Captain Francis...

View of a Buffalo Bill Cody, Captain Frank D. Baldwin, General N. A. Miles, and Captain Marion P. Maus, on horses in a United States Army camp at the Native American Sioux, Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota.

Native American Lakota Sioux men and boys perform a dance on the Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota. They wear breechcloths, bustles, roaches, feathers in their hair, leg bands with bells, moccasins, arm bands, and hair pipe breastplates.